Published Aug 22, 2025
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Among the feline fancy, Bengals have some of the most exotic looks. Like sleek, muscular jaguars in a South American jungle, these domestic housecats with a wild look sport stripes and rosette spots. Bengals get their stunning looks from a wild ancestor, the Asian leopard cat. They show some of their wild ancestry with their high energy and strong playful streak, as well as this peculiarity: Unlike other domestic cats, the Bengal actually enjoys water and getting wet, like its cousins in the jungle!
It’s no wonder that many Bengal owners have created Instagram accounts to share with the world photos and videos of their exquisite cats. Check out these beauties, who make purrfect social media stars.
1. Mandu
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- Instagram: @manduthebengalcat
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 92.9K
Oh, this beautiful girl with Bengal stripes and spots is talkative! This pinned reel, which has nearly 21,000 likes, shows the Bengal doing chirplike, short meows, and the video ends with this fitting text: “I love you!” In this other pinned video, Mandu’s mom has a conversation with the cat and asks her whether she is actually making cookies when she is “making biscuits” on the couch. Mandu participates in the conversation as much as her mom does with her quick meows. And here, chatty Mandu claims to be making falafel.
Go to @manduthebengalcat, and see why more than 92,000 followers love this gabby girl.
2. Simba and Fiji
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- Instagram: @baby_bengal_simba
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 15.7K
Well, Baby Bengal Simba, on Instagram at @baby_bengal_simba, isn’t a baby anymore. But, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page’s 673 posts, you can see where it all began with this young cutie eight and a half years ago. I am cooing over these adorable Simba kitten photos! Check out this picture of a mouth-wide-open Simba with the very fitting caption: “I am Simba. Hear me roar.” Follow Simba’s growth in countless cute poses and settings, including a reel of him messing with a Christmas tree ornament.
A little more than five years ago, Simba’s family brought home a new Bengal kitten – Fiji – and you can watch the instant-bestie meeting with the older brother in this reel. Adorable Fiji was smitten with Simba and the smitten kitten wouldn’t leave him alone.
Check out this page, and you’ll definitely become one of the more than 15,000 followers of New Jersey owner Victoria Sigona’s cats.
3. Leo
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- Instagram: @leo_bengali_cat
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 10.8K
If you have an entire day of down time, go to @leo_bengali_cat, where you have more than 4,000 pictures and videos of this handsome Bengal to keep you entertained. This 6-year-old cat with giant rosettes is so sleek and exotic looking!
Leo lives with a small dog and a few other cats – one of which playfully bats at Leo’s tail from below here – but he appears to be the only Bengal. In this reel, a voiceover introduces the Bengal breed and explains the exquisite markings on Leo with this Bengal fun fact: These cats were originally bred to look like miniature leopards.
“But don’t let their looks fool you,” the narrator says. “Although they look like that, they are very well-behaved and devoted cats.”
Live vicariously as a Bengal parent on Instagram and enjoy watching the amazing Leo with his 10.8K followers!
4. Jake and Jupiter
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- Instagram: @jake.the.bengal
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 266K
These cats – dark brown Jake, and the younger female Jupiter, with an exquisite Snow Link coat pattern – make an adorable pair.
Jake and Jupiter show their cat insecurities in a post where their human mom shares that, after a long struggle with infertility, she is finally expecting a baby boy. The cats, fearing being replaced, wear cute bibs with these sayings: “Our humans are having a baby” (Jake) and “I thought I was the baby” (Jupiter). A year later, I am sure these beautiful cats are still babies in the family!
Look at this adorable photo of Jake and Jupiter with a cat-shaped snowman! And here, the cats ring in the new year under a disco ball in their catio.
If you scroll down far down the page’s xx posts to this sad announcement in May 2023, you’ll see the beauty who was the third cat of the family: Juneau. This silverish-coated Bengal sadly had a congenital heart defect and wasn’t expected to live past a year, but his loving human gave him the best life she could for two and a half years.
Enjoy the amazing Bengals at @jake.the.bengal, and join the 266,000 followers.
5. Ziggy and Zelda
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- Instagram: @wild.awakening_
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 69.1K
I can barely tell this young boy and girl pair of brown, rosette-covered Bengals, but I’m sure their humans have no problems knowing who is who. These cats have such exotic-looking coats that knowing they are house pets amazes me – and nearly 70,000 followers of the page @wild.awakening_ must feel the same awe. In this picture of one of the cats climbing a tree, it could pass as a photo from the wild.
Ziggy and Zelda live with their humans on the Surf Coast of Australia. Here, they enjoy outdoor activities like wading in water on a leash, and leaping into the air in the yard to catch a wand toy. Zelda and Ziggy demonstrate the joy of an indoor cat treadmill in this reel.
You will find these kittens very enchanting!
6. Feodora and Bronsky
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- Instagram: @feodorathebengal
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 3.4K
These two dark brown Bengal cats, Feodora and Bronsky, are 9 and 8, respectively. Come to @feodorathebengal, and you’ll find more than 404 reels and photos of these striped Bengal beauties. You will join the more than 3,400 followers who love these Delaware Bengals!
Check out “Talking Queen Theodora” rolling on her back and meowing here. And in this photo, the adorable sidekick Bronsky flashes beautiful light green eyes with the caption: “Not without me!” Bronsky explores potted flowers in this photo, and Theodora stalks a colorful butterfly stealthily in coneflowers, backed by theme music from “The Pink Panther” cartoon in this reel. Feodora says “Merry Christmas” in this festive shot at the base of the Christmas tree.
7. Hugo and Hector
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- Instagram: @hugo_hector_bengalcats
- Number of Followers on Instagram: 10.9K
You will love cooing over Hugo and his little brother Hector at @hugo_hector_bengalcats, where more than 7,400 followers are admiring these exotic Bengals.
Hector, mostly black with brown swirls, looks so cute as a kitten praising his big brother! And here’s handsome big bro Hugo, warming the lap of “Grandpaw” sitting in a wheelchair, and peeking out from a pile of laundry in the dryer here. Look at this reel of cute baby Hector meowing!
This profile serves as a showcase for Hugo and Hector now, but if you scroll down far among the page’s more than 2,600 posts, you’ll find two more Bengals who are now memorialized, because they have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Hertta, a beauty shown here, died in 2024; Hermanni, another gorgeous cat shown in this photo, died in 2016. This photo shows Hertta and Hugo side by side from behind. At Christmas, Hertta posed next to a plush elf in Bengal colors.
On the pages of Instagram, even beloved cats who have left us can live on to make us smile and laugh!
